Is there a friendlier way to get an instance of FontMetrics than FontMetrics fm = Graphics.getFontMetrics(Font); I hate this way because of the following example: If you want to create in a gam...

I am trying to find what the value set in the font-size CSS property is corresponding to. To give the context, I want to get in CSS the size in em of parts of the font (above the capital height an...

Is there a way to calculate the length of a string in pixels, given a certain java.awt.Font object, that does not use any GUI components?

Let's say some images have to be generated by a Qt console program and that font metrics are needed by internal algorithms (they use the text width/height as input to compute the position where the...

The TextBaseline enum in Flutter has two options: alphabetic ideographic How do these values actually change the baseline?

I have a TextView with an OnTouchListener. What I want is the character index the user is pointing to when I get the MotionEvent. Is there any way to get to the underlying font metrics of the TextV...

I have a problem. My application interface works much slower if i use eastern languages there. Especially i felt it in components such as JList, JCombobox, JTable. How i found the performance of ...

This seems like a basic question, but I couldn't find a similar one on SO. While reading the documentation, I was having trouble grasping the concepts. I want to understand what the difference is b...

I have a custom delegate in my QTableWidget to hightlight matches if a user searches something. Unfortunately the rectangle position does often not really fit This happens on some characters or phr...

I've been trying to find a way to change a font file's line spacing default value, using QFont, QFontMetrics or something like that. I'm using QPainter::drawText to draw some text in a bounding rec...

When rendering a chart with JFreeChart, I noticed a layout problem when the chart's category labels included Japanese characters. Although the text is rendered with the correct glyphs, the text was...

It’s easy to determine the rendered height of a font using FontMetrics, but what about the other way around? How can I obtain a font that will fit into a specific height in pixels? "Give me Verd...

FontMetrics doesn't have getters for cap height and x-height of a font. How can I obtain these values? As far as cap height goes, there's no guarantee for a particular capital letter that the let...

How can I get full information about single glyph from choosen font (for example Arial -> symbol "A") This picture describe what variables I need to find:

I'm writing code against the Java Personal Basis Profile in J2ME. I need to measure the width of an AttributedString in pixels. In Java SE, I'd get an AttributedCharacterIterator from my Attribute...

I need to get a ascender/descender and x-height.. By using following code I can find the descender and the total height: descender_height = paint.descent(); total_height = descender_height - pain...

How to get FontMetrics without use Graphics ? I want to get FontMetrics in constructor, now I do this way: BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(5, 5, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB); FontMetrics fm =...

When I look at the javadoc for FontMetric.getAscent() I see: The font ascent is the distance from the font's baseline to the top of most alphanumeric characters. Some characters in the Font migh...

I have MinionPro-Regular.otf file. I working with it's structure. I have found it have: Table 'hhea': reference on 1668 metrics in 'hmtx' table. Table 'hmtx': 1668 pairs of hMetrics('advanceWidth...

I need to find the width of the text that is drawn on the screen. This thread suggests that the FontMetrics.stringWidth() will sometimes not be as accurate as FontMetrics.getStringBounds(). Does a...

I have an Android App that dynamically scales text depending on the resolution of the android device. I have tested this code on all the predefined resolutions in the Android Simulator and my code ...

In WPF there is the FormattedText in the System.Windows.Media namespace MSDN FormattedText that I can use like so: private static Size GetTextSize(string txt, string font, int size, bool isBold) ...